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How Facebook Keeps Millions of Servers Synced 🕰️⏰If you’re running a distributed system, it’s incredibly important to keep the system clocks of the machines synchronized. If the machines are off by a few seconds, this will cause a huge variety of different issues. You can probably imagine why unsyn...Jan 26, 2024·6 min read·46
How Cloudflare Achieved 55 Million Requests per Second with Just 15 PostgreSQL Clusters! 💻In the vast landscape of the internet, Cloudflare emerged in July 2009, founded by a group of visionaries with the goal of making the internet faster and more reliable. The challenges they faced were immense, but their growth was nothing short of spe...Jan 19, 2024·3 min read·477
The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore 👴🏻🚀In a digital era driven by cutting-edge technology, an unexpected hero emerges from the shadows: COBOL, a 64-year-old programming language quietly orchestrating 3 trillion dollars worth of transactions daily. But here’s the catch — hardly anyone know...Jan 13, 2024·3 min read·24
Pinterest’s Epic Journey from 10K to 22M Users with Just 6 Engineers 🚀🤯Once upon a digital epoch, Pinterest, the image-centric social network, defied all odds by skyrocketing to 11 million users with a lean team of only 6 engineers. Fasten your seat belts as we unravel the enthralling saga of how Pinterest triumphed ove...Jan 7, 2024·4 min read·28
